It's bullshit, because the insurance industry would lower premiums for a few years then lobby to kill the public option by showing the congress the numbers; which contain cheaper premiums for their customers. We know what happens next congress kills the trigger and the public option. As soon as the bill is amended, premiums spike an all time high. As the insurance industry continues to fatten the pockets of congress it becomes that much harder for the next generation to improve health care. The insurance industry is fighting tooth and nail, because they know this. The insurance industry like other corporate entities are domestic terrorist, and they must be defeated by the people. We have to do it by putting up a real fight. We have to get our democracy back and end the 100 plus year reign of the corporatocracy.

Don't let the government force you, with penalty, to purchase insurance unless it can first prove the reform makes it affordable and available for all (as well as no more bankruptcy's or insurance related deaths)

Thats ok. Not everyone follows these things. A trigger would mean the entire mandate/penalty section would only come into effect as a law once certain arbitrary conditions are met (regarding affordability, subsidies, accessibility, denials, etc), and for all people, those measures would not apply until that test is positive.

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